I’ve recently made a post on why I think John will go insane. Here’s the link if you want to read it it. https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postst226324_Our-beloved-John-may-be-going-insane.aspx
But I just thought of something. What if a Gravemind captures John and turns him completely mad, like one did with the Ur-Didact, knowing it would cause more in-fighting and weaken the species? And then John’s replacement (who I see is often speculated to be Thorne) will kind of take John’s place, just as the Ur-Didact was replaced by the Iso-Didact. John’s and the Ur-Didact’s stories often parallel in several ways, so I don’t think it’s out of the question that Chief goes bad for a while. But this isn’t really a theory I have or something I want to see happen; it’s just a thought.
Also, what if the Prometheans somehow “remember” their humanity like Guilty Spark did. Once again, this isn’t a theory; just a what-if question.
It’d have been interesting if Didact had tried to impose his view on Chief rather than outright ignoring him.
Chief was mistaken for Didact by 343 Guilty Spark, and it’s not impossible for them to be compared.
If 343i really want to make Didact his nemesis (and to be frank, that wasn’t even apparent in Halo 4), they need to compare and contrast, not just contrast.
> It’d have been interesting if Didact had tried to impose his view on Chief rather than outright ignoring him.
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> Chief was mistaken for Didact by 343 Guilty Spark, and it’s not impossible for them to be compared.
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> If 343i really want to make Didact his nemesis (and to be frank, that wasn’t even apparent in Halo 4), they need to compare and contrast, not just contrast.
I agree. The best villains are the ones with whom you you can kind of identify with. Their actions may be bad, but they may be justified in a way. Like the Librarian said to the Didact, “I know your reasons, and I understand them.”
I’m imagining spending a good portion of a game dealing with blackouts/hallucinations/nightmares, culminating in a level where you spend the whole thing blowing up Elites and Prometheans and whatnot while the Gravemind gives cryptic taunts once in a while, then in the end a “veil” is lifted and it turns out it was all a hallucination and you’ve massacred a human base or something.
If John goes Didact on us, he’ll probably get a bullet in the the visor.
John is definitely changing, but I don’t think he’s losing his sanity, or following the Didact’s path. I think he’s certainly becoming more like the Didact – he’s facing the necessity of standing up as a leader and possibly a revolutionary. This is something the Didact failed to be in his time, in great crisis. That will be what these characters share.
> John is definitely changing, but I don’t think he’s losing his sanity, or following the Didact’s path. I think he’s certainly becoming more like the Didact – he’s facing the necessity of standing up as a leader and possibly a revolutionary. This is something the Didact failed to be in his time, in great crisis. That will be what these characters share.
To be fair, a lot of external factors ruined the Didact’s chances be they politically at home and from Gravemind manipulation.
> If John goes Didact on us, he’ll probably get a bullet in the the visor.
EXACTLY. Not going to happen. He’s fine. He’s a big boy.
> > If John goes Didact on us, he’ll probably get a bullet in the the visor.
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> EXACTLY. Not going to happen. He’s fine. He’s a big boy.
If he “goes Didact”, he will be smart about it.
> If John goes Didact on us, he’ll probably get a bullet in the the visor.
That could explain the cracked visor in the X1 trailer.
> > If John goes Didact on us, he’ll probably get a bullet in the the visor.
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> EXACTLY. Not going to happen. <mark>He’s fine.</mark> He’s a big boy.
No he isn’t.
It seems to me it’s just losing Cortana that’s got him messed up. He is pretty hard core but he was very close to that AI.
> It’d have been interesting if Didact had tried to impose his view on Chief rather than outright ignoring him.
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> <mark>Chief was mistaken for Didact by 343 Guilty Spark</mark>, and it’s not impossible for them to be compared.
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> If 343i really want to make Didact his nemesis (and to be frank, that wasn’t even apparent in Halo 4), they need to compare and contrast, not just contrast.
For some reason, I don’t remember that. Now it sounds really interesting. However, John ending up as the Didact, I’m not sure.
You know, I just noticed something. Throughout the entire Halo franchise, we have never been thrust into a situation where we have to kill actual humans instead of the Covenant/Flood/Prometheans. I find that to be interesting. BTW, Flood humans don’t count because they’re hardly human anymore.
> You know, I just noticed something. Throughout the entire Halo franchise, we have never been thrust into a situation where we have to kill actual humans instead of the Covenant/Flood/Prometheans. I find that to be interesting. BTW, Flood humans don’t count because they’re hardly human anymore.
And at the same time, the game has become more punishing towards betraying them.
In the first two Halo games, your crosshair turned red when it was pointed on them. There were even easter eggs associated with betraying marines (i.e. The Megg). From Halo 3 and onward, you get punished. Not to mention how the NPC can 1sk you or how scripting kills you on the spot. 
Friendly fire on Exodus in Reach… shudders
I fear Halo will take the CoD path and reset the checkpoint if we betray our allies…
Anyways, I wouldn’t mind fighting human enemies if they got a major AI overhaul.
> You know, I just noticed something. Throughout the entire Halo franchise, we have never been thrust into a situation where we have to kill actual humans instead of the Covenant/Flood/Prometheans. I find that to be interesting. BTW, Flood humans don’t count because they’re hardly human anymore.
I’ve just been playing through the Halo 2 campaign again and really enjoyed playing the Arbiter on the missions to hunt down the heretic leader. Sometimes it gets confusing who you should kill though when you have to point your cross hair at the other grunts and elites and see if it is red or green. Pretty sure I betrayed at least one of my elite buddies.